I live and work on the traditional lands of the Menang Noongar people and pay my respects to Elders past, present and future. Sovereignty was never ceded. This always was and always will be Aboriginal land.

In this episode, from the 30 minute mark, is the voice of Greg Lake, former Director of Offshore Processing describing how his role changed in 2013 from providing care and support to asylum seekers to inflicting as much inhumanity and mistreatment on them as possible.

I was instructed to … select the children on the basis of how young they looked – because we wanted to send the message to people smuggling networks that even the youngest children were eligible for transfer to the island.

— Greg Lake, former Director of Offshore Processing

Abdul tells why he got on a boat in Indonesia for a second time after the first one sank and he saw five friends drown. Both these men's accounts show clearly why the simplistic rhetoric of "saving lives at sea, and securing our borders" is meaningless.

Dear Prime Minister

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On July 30 2016 I started writing letters to the Prime Minister of Australia protesting Australia's indefinite detention of asylum seekers on Manus Island and Nauru. There are more than 1500 asylum seekers trapped in offshore detention since 2013. These are transcripts of those letters. I am still waiting for a response from Mr Turnbull.

The Confined Hearts Project: Penny Ryan's project involves making and showing 1468 small terracotta human hearts, one for each person currently detained on Nauru and Manus Island as part of Australia’s policies on people seeking asylum.

Voices from detention

The Messenger is based on thousands of voice messages sent by Abdul Aziz Muhamat, a refugee currently detained on the Australian-run detention centre on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea, to Michael Green, a journalist based in Melbourne.

Behind the Wires is an oral history project documenting the stories of the men, women and children who have been detained by the Australian government after seeking asylum in Australia.